The Catholic Church celebrates
patron saints ranging from the obvious to the obscure, from
doctors to undertakers. Why not add a patron saint for responsible
handgun heroes?

John M. Snyder, former Jesuit
seminarian and gun rights activist, tells the story of that
question with simplicity, detail, and persistence, beginning
with the tale of the Passionist Patron Saint of Youth, who
saved an 1860 Italian town from marauding rapists and thieves--by
shooting a lizard.

The St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc. today
ripped into gun prohibitionists in the Catholic Church hierarchy
and suggested gun owners place a written or printed message
of complaint in collection baskets as an initial form of protest.

Society chairman John M. Snyder said
"the forthcoming beatification of Pope John Paul II comes
as a welcome spiritual torpedo moving against anti-gun owner
Catholic Church bureaucrats."

Fort
Hood, Texas police Sgts. Mark Todd and Kimberly Munley this
week wore St. Gabriel Possenti Society honor medallions presented
by Society Founder-Chairman John M. Snyder here at the American
Police Hall of Fame (APHF) during its Law Enforcement Officers
of the Year banquet.

ARLINGTON, VA, July 8 - "Last month's
historic Supreme Court gun rights decision is a blockbuster
development for the right of individual self-defense in religious
as well as secular spheres of interest," John M. Snyder,
Founder-Chairman of the St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc.
declared here today.